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What's Wrong With This Building?

What's Wrong With This Building?

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1990•25m
Documentary

This film, which documents a controversy over plans to alter the original architectural design of the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines some of the problems raised by the decision, including Modernist and Post-Modernist styles, architecture as art, the responsibility of art museums to the public, and the role of the architect

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Columbia University School of the Arts

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Joanna Simon

Narrator (voice)

Arthur C. Danto

Self

Charles Gwathmey

Self

Thomas Hoving

Self

Murray Levi

Self

César Pelli

Self

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